Events in the year 1952 in Turkey.Türkiye'nin 70 yılı, Tempo, İstanbul, 1998, pp 118–120
Parliament 9th Parliament of Turkey
Incumbents President – Celal Bayar Prime Minister – Adnan Menderes Leader of the opposition – İsmet İnönü
Ruling party and the main opposition Ruling party – Democrat Party (DP) Main opposition – Republican People's Party (CHP)
Cabinet 20th government of Turkey
Events 3 January – 1952 Hasankale earthquake 18 February – Turkey became a member of NATO 16 June – The ban on the female Ottoman dynasty members to enter Turkey was lifted 20 August – Günseli Başar won the European Beauty pageant 22 November – Attempted assassination of journalist Ahmet Emin Yalman. 24 December – Upon Fuat Köprülü's proposal, the Turkish wording of the constitıion was partially changed to Ottoman Turkish
Births 8 April – Ahmet Piriştina, politician 20 April – Erol Küçükbakırcı, cyclist 11 May – Nur Batur, journalist 23 May – Hayati Yazıcı, politician 1 June – Şenol Güneş, football coach 1 June – Ali Müfit Gürtuna, politician 9 June – Bülent Ersoy, singer 2 September – Salih Memecan, caricaturist 28 June – Enis Batur, writer and publisher
Deaths 5 February – Ömer Fevzi Eyüboğlu (born in 1884), journalist 13 March – Ömer Rıza Doğrul (born 1893), publisher and politician 16 May – Memduh Şevket Esendal (born in 1884), writer 28 December – Kerim Erim (born 1894), mathematician and physicist.
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See also Turkey at the 1952 Summer Olympics
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